People are not aware that knowledge is not truth. Knowledge is borrowed. Truth is personal.
Religion is not knowledge. Religion is experience.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that knowledge is spiritual. Knowledge is counterfeit spirituality. For a true spiritual experience, knowledge has to be set aside. Knowing about swimming and actually swimming are two entirely different things. In the same way, knowing about religion and being religious are two different things.
As David Francis, the Unitarian pioneer said, we need not think alike to love alike.
Spirituality, in the Christian tradition, is walking in Love. That doesn't take knowledge. It takes forgiveness.
The idea of the Perennial Philosophy of Aldous Huxley leads one to the idea that God is too big for any one religion. How is it that sometimes people outgrow their religion of childhood? James Fowler, among others, has mapped out a model of spiritual development. Osho says that a person cannot enter into a spiritual life until he/she rebels against childish religious beliefs. Notes On A Spiritual Life intends to explore deeper understandings of an authentic spiritual life.
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